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ICFA 42 “Climate Change and the Anthropocene” Program v. 2021-03-14 9:30 EDT
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Thursday, March 18, 2021- 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Board Meeting [LIVE] Belle Isle
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BIPOC Meeting [LIVE] Magnolia
ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND.
********** Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 13:00 p.m. - 14:00 p.m.
JFA Business Meeting [LIVE] Belle Isle
SCIAFA Meeting [LIVE] Pine
Lord Ruthven Assembly Meeting [LIVE] Magnolia
********** Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 15:00 p.m. – 16:00 p.m.
SCIAFA Meet & Greet / Orientation [LIVE] Belle Isle
********** Thursday, March 18, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.
Division Head Meeting [LIVE] Maple ********** 2
Friday, March 19, 2021 08:00 a.m. – 08:50 a.m.
1. (IF/SF/FTV/VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Weirding the Maple Anthropocene I: H.R. Giger, The Matrix, Volodine, and VanderMeer Chair: Dale Knickerbocker East Carolina University
Decadence and Parasitism in the Anthropocene: An inquiry into the textual and surreal worlds of Weird Fiction, H.R. Giger and The Matric Trilogy of Films Arnab Chakraborty Independent Researcher
Anthropocene Weirding in the Fiction of Antoine Volodine and Jeff VanderMeer Christina Lord University of North Carolina Wilmington
2. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Superhero Ecologies Oak Chair: Mark T. Decker Bloomsburg University
There are Black People in the Future: Fast Color, Black Futures, and Radical Ecologies Shelby Cadwell Wayne State University
"Thanos Was Right": Masculinity, Toxic Fandom, and the Villainization of Climate Change Dan Hassler-Forest Utrecht University
Saving the World?: Superheroes and the Environment Kim Wickham Horry-Georgetown Technical College
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3. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate Fictions Captiva A Chair: Audrey Taylor Sul Ross State University, Rio Grande College
Lyricality in the Anthropocene: An Afterlife for the Romantic Tool-Box Sumita Sharma University of Delhi
Aspects of climate migration in Parable of the Sower and The New Wilderness Anderson Gomes Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)
4. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Reading I Vista A Host: Bryan D. Dietrich
Jeanne Beckwith F. Brett Cox Jean Lorrah
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Friday, March 19, 2021 09:00 a.m. – 09:50 a.m.
5. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] (Re)considering Zombie Narrative Belle Isle from the Comic Shop to the Academy: The Walking Dead, Severance, and Sacrificial Fathers in Maggie, Train to Busan, and Cargo Chair: Bonnie Cross University of Central Florida and Valencia College
(Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives Kyle William Bishop Southern Utah University
Undead, with an MFA: The "Literary" Zombie C. Wylie Lenz Florida Polytechnic University
The Death of Rick Grimes and the End of The Walking Dead Angela Tenga Florida Institute of Technology
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6. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Who Speaks For the Trees? Magnolia Forests in Fantastic Children's Lit Chair: Alaine Martaus University of Illinois
Gnomes, Gnature, and the "Gnifty Gnomobile": or, Elemental Spirits, Deforestation, and American Car Culture Dimitra Fimi University of Glasgow
Being a Tree in the Chthulucene: Magic, Kinship and Plants in Margaret Mahy's Fantasy Fiction Melanie Duckworth Østfold University College
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Forest Denise Pinnaro Florida Atlantic University
7. (FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Tied to the Land: Fairies in the Pine Natural World Chair: Derek J. Thiess University of North Georgia
Save a Horse, Steal a Baby: Fairy Exchange in the First Branch of The Mabinogion Marisa Mills University of Southern Mississippi
Breaking the Great Silence in Queen Mab: The Great Famine and Fairies Abigail Heiniger Lincoln Memorial University
Naturalizing Death and the Afterlife Through Fairy Tales: George MacDonald's "Little Daylight" Hannah Mummert University of Southern Mississippi
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8. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Energy, Ecology, and Empathy Dogwood in Video Games Chair: Gerry Canavan Marquette University
Animal Crossing, Spiritfarer, and Connections and Empathy during the COVID19 Pandemic Dustin Connis The University of Colorado Denver
Power Games: Discourses of Energy in Speculative Video Games Pawel Frelik University of Warsaw
Dangerous Pleasures: Mixing Reality, Speculative Fiction, and Ecological Precarity while the World Ends Jessica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh
9. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Gender and Sexuality in Science Captiva A Fiction Chair: Kylie Korsnack University of Richmond
TERFs, Trans bodies, and Queer Critique in Delany's Triton Dagmar Van Engen Arizona State University
Unfair to Judge: Sexual Dynamics and Non-binary Gender Norms in Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Jaclyn L. Sutherland Idaho State University
Gender Complexity, Pronoun Usage, and Reading The Left Hand of Darkness with a Modern Perspective Peregrine Brown Framingham State University
10. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session I Vista A Host: James Patrick Kelly
Dana Chamblee Carpenter Will Ludwigsen Bryan D. Dietrich Lawrence C. Connolly
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Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
11. (CYA/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Intersectional World Magnolia of Harry Potter Chair: Amanda Firestone University of Tampa
Hagrid, Messenger of Death Anna Lüscher University of Konstanz
Harry Potter and the Dearth of Research Wizards: Questioning the Natural Laws of Rowling's Wizarding World Robin Whittle Independent Scholar
The Politics of Portal-Quest Fantasy: Marginalized Identities in Harry Potter Al Maier University of Northern Iowa
Beastly, Beautiful "Underbeings": J.K. Rowling's Perilous Expansion of the Wizarding World Sam Morris University of South Carolina Beaufort
12. (IF/SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Posthuman and the Maple Anthropocene Chair: Natalie Deam Iowa State University
Subverted Dichotomies and Permeable Borders in "Semente Exterminadora" M. Elizabeth Ginway University of Florida
Capitalocene ecologies in Rosa Montero’s Bruna Husky series Kiersty Lemon-Rogers Berea College
El último sueño: A Novel of Anthropocenic Posthumanistic Sensibility Miguel Ángel Albujar-Escuredo University of Kansas
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13. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Identity and Intersectionality Dogwood Chair: Eliza Rose University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Assemble Me, Piece by Piece: Re-Signification of Disability through Fetishization of the Prosthesis Julia Gatermann University of Bremen
"I Love Y… Yams": Queer Identity in She Kills Monsters and Kapow-I GoGo Scout Storey University of Georgia
14. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Posthuman and the Trans- Oak corporeal: Alaimo, Harraway, and the End Chair: Rikke Schubart University of Southern Denmark
Transcorporeality in the Critical Zone: To the Lake Julia Kuznetski Tallinn University, Estonia
Sleeping with the Fishmen: Reimagining the Anthropocene through Oceanic- Chthonic Kinships Prema Arasu Drew Thornton University of Western Australia Curtin University
End (of the World) Girl Ashley Hendricks Georgia State University
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15. (FL) [LIVE] Theory Roundtable: Maria Sachiko Cecire’s Re-Enchanted: Cove The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Moderator: Benjamin J. Robertson University of Colorado, Boulder
16. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Africanfuturism Captiva A Chair: Sherryl Vint UC Riverside
Gimme My Respect: Steven Barnes the Black Cyberpunk Isiah Lavender III University of Georgia
"Master harmonizers": Making Connections in the Post-Disaster World of Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Novella Series Iuliia Ibragimova Dublin City University
Climate Change Predictions in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents: A Call to Action Jeanne Griggs Kenyon College
17. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings II Vista A Host: Veronica Schanoes
Fran Wilde Usman T. Malik Shveta Thakrar
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Friday, March 19, 2021 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
18. (IF/SFL/FTV/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Creature Features Maple I: Ants, Mosquitos, and Merpeople Chair: M. Elizabeth Ginway University of Florida
Incompatible Empires: Insect Apocalypse in Latin America in the early Anthropocene Rachel Haywood Ferreira Iowa State University
Mermaids as Mediators between Humans and Nature in Asian Eco-Fantasy Films Li Zeng Illinois State University
19. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate Change and (diegetic and Oak non-diegetic) Time Chair: Jen Caruso Minneapolis College of Art and Design
"Our Place in the Dirt": Slow Violence and the Cinema of Climate Change Luke Rodewald University of Florida
"Welcome to the 21st": Travelers (2016-2018) and the Spectre of Self- Destruction Anna Maria Grzybowska University of Warsaw
1408 and the Structure of Haunting Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Central Michigan University
20. (FL) [LIVE] Panel: Setting up a Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic in a Cove Global Climate Emergency Moderator: Dimitra Fimi University of Glasgow
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21. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Politics in Science Fiction Captiva A Chair: Noah Slowik Lewis University
City Space: Ecology and the Politics of the Self in SF Mark Soderstrom SUNY- Empire State College
FutureWork: Representations of Labor in Current Science Fiction Lars Schmeink HafenCity University, Hamburg
Is That from Science or Fiction? Otherworldly Etymologies and Neologisms Reveal the Impact of Science Fiction on the English Lexicon Bryce Lyne King Florida Atlantic University
22. (SCIAFA) [LIVE] Tending to Mental Health as Graduate Students during Capri COVID Moderator: Samantha Baugus University of Florida
Joshua Pearson California State U, Los Angeles
Shelby Cadwell Wayne State University
23. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings III Vista A Host: Andy Duncan
James Morrow Marian Womack David C. Kopaska-Merkel
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Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Coffee Break On Your Own
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Friday, March 19, 2021 13:00 p.m. - 14:50 p.m.
24. (Board) [LIVE] Panel: Indigenous Sciences, BIPOC SF, and Capri Environmental/Restorative Justice Moderator: Grace L. Dillon Portland State University
Joy Sanchez-Taylor LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Isiah Lavender III University of Georgia
Taryne Jade Taylor Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Andrea Hairston Invited Author
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Friday, March 19, 2021 15:00 p.m. - 15:50 p.m.
25. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Wolves, Werewolves, and Ghosts Belle Isle in Film, Fiction, and Folklore Chair: K.M. Ferebee Ghent University
"Unnatural Stresses": Witnessing Death in Hold the Dark Frances Auld State College of Florida
"Wolves and Werewolves: How Our Beliefs About One Influence the Other" S. M. Mack Independent Scholar
"A Pleasing Terror": Legends, Scholarly Authority and the Folkloresque in the Ghost Stories of M. R. James Timothy H. Evans Western Kentucky University
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26. (CYA/SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Colonizers are Coming Magnolia Chair: Tereza Dědinová Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Rejecting the Anthropocene: Hybridity in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking Trilogy Ildikó Limpár Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Hungary)
"Something Here is Completely, Horribly, Unnaturally Wrong": Eco-Horror in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Aurora Rising (2019) Alena Cicholewski University of Oldenburg
Wolf-Woman: Posthumanism in Tamora Pierce's Young Adult Feminist Fantasy Literature Grace A. T. Worm University of Glasgow
27. (FTFN/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Shifting Socialization in Pine Fairy Tales Chair: Judith Gero John Missouri State University
Fairy-Tale Socialization and the Many Lands of Oz Jill Terry Rudy Brigham Young University
The Gentry and the Little People: Resolving the Conflicting Legacy of Fairy Fiction Savannah Hughes University of Maine, Stonecoast
Look Who's Talking: Fairy Tales as Social Scripts for Discrediting Women's Testimonies of Abuse Linda J. Lee University of Pennsylvania
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28. (IF/GaH/SFL/FL/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Apocalypse, Maple Dystopia, and the Anthropocene I Chair: Suparno Banerjee Texas State University
Russian Dystopian Cinema in the Twenty-First Century Jesse Brown-O'Dell California State University Long Beach
When Contagion Trumps Climate Change: Re-Watching Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies in the Corona Winter Michael Fuchs University of Oldenburg
"Chan ann an-diugh": Facing the end of the world in M. Evan MacGriogair's "A Pale Horse" Nathaniel Harrington University of Toronto
29. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fandom, Narrative, and Dogwood Performance Chair: Carrie J. Cole Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"A Certain Solid Fragrance, Risen From The Earth": Dystopian Bodies and the Cultivation of Touch in the Fanfiction of Mad Max: Fury Road Nicola R. Govocek Temple University
Sleeping with the Entity: Cosmic Horror, Cosmic Romance, and "The Magnus Archives" Eden Lee Lackner University of Calgary
Performing Alternative History: Steampunk as Creative Anachronism Kelli Shermeyer University of Oklahoma
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30. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Queer Ecologies and/in Steven Oak Universe Chair: Gina Wisker University of Bath
Waking the World Up: Apocalyptic Awakenings and Weird Symbiosis in Alpha Centauri, Steven Universe, and the Southern Reach Joshua Pearson California State U, Los Angeles
Befriending the Apocalypse: Queer Ecologies in Steven Universe Stina Attebery California Polytechnic State University
Queer Ecologies and Colonial Resistance in James Cameron’s Avatar Luke Chwala Clemson University
31. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Dream Visions and Memories Cove Chair: TBA TBA
Dreaming in the Capitalocene: Elizabeth Knox’s Dreamhunter Duology Brian Attebery Idaho State University/Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Visions, Dreams and the Gifts of the Collective Unconscious: A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Fantasy Laura Martin University of Glasgow
Anthropocene and Speculative Memory in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun University of Białystok, Poland
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32. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] 1960s & 1970s Science Fiction Captiva A Chair: Jeanne Griggs Kenyon College
Classical Myth and Inner Space in 1960s New Wave Science Fiction Robert Cape Austin College
Kate Wilhelm's Feminist Palimpsets Joe Sanders Shadetree Scholar
No Stone Left Unturned: Environmental Catastrophe in J.G. Ballard's The Day of Creation Amanda Rose University of Florida
33. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Anthropocene Now Captiva B Chair: Terry Harpold University of Florida
Terradeformation: Unsettling Environments, Knowledge, and Control in Recent Speculative Fictions Aaron Gabriel Montalvo Pennsylvania State University
"Ten Years Too Late": Can Time Travel Fix the Anthropocene Earth? Stan Hunter Kranc Pennsylvania State University
"A Philosophical Koan": Gwyneth Jones on Climate Catastrophe and the Way Out Steven Shaviro Wayne State University
34. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings IV Vista A Host: Molly Tanzer
Anna Kashina Micah Dean Hicks Ilana C. Myer
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35. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Young Adult Fiction Vista B Moderator: Justina Ireland
Darcie Little Badger Leah Cypess Cecil Castellucci
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Friday, March 19, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 16:50 p.m.
36. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Belle Isle the Infrastructures of Horror Chair: Stephen Webb University of Alberta
Infrastructures of Horror: Race, Neoliberalism, American Literature, and the Anthropocene in Mat Johnson’s Pym Benjamin J. Robertson University of Colorado, Boulder
'A Lovecraftian Horror Within It': Post-9/11 Existence and Anthropocene Destabilization in Mat Johnson’s Pym Rachel Combs University of Oregon
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37. (FTFN/FTV/IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Survival Stories: Film Pine as Folk Narrative Chair: Lucy Fraser The University of Queensland
Using the Apocalyptic Film to Understand Storytelling in the Modern World Kathleen Ragan Independent Scholar
Monsters in the Forest: Pokot (2017), "Little Red Riding Hood" Crimes, and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic Cristina Bacchilega Pauline Greenhill University of Hawai'i-Mānoa University of Winnipeg
Spinning Flesh into Gold: Engineered Bodies, Capitalism and Global Production in Bong Joon-ho's Okja and Karen Russell's "Reeling for the Empire" Amy Greenhough Falmouth University
38. (IF/SFL/FL/FTV/VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] When Maple Cultures Meet, the Fantastic Happens: Mexico, China, and the U.S.A. Chair: Rachel Haywood Ferreira Iowa State University
Disrupting the Western Theme Park Norm with a New Ethos: Theme Park Design in China Carissa Baker University of Central Florida
Mestizaje, Weapons, and Writing in Rudolfo Anaya's ChupaCabra Trilogy David Dalton University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Necesitamos agua": Reading Sleep Dealer as Climate Fiction Stephen C. Tobin University of California, Los Angeles
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39. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Stormlight, Cosmere, and the Dogwood Carnivalesque Chair: Megan Suttie McMaster University
Theopocene: Deity, Humanity, and Climate Crisis in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Adam Mclain Harvard University
"It Just Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This!": Climate, Krewes, and the Carnivalesque in Sean Stewart’s Galveston Danielle Bienvenue Bray University of Georgia
40. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Vampires and Zombies: Oak Reconsidering Genre Chair: Kyle William Bishop Southern Utah University
Monstrous Infection: Open and Closed Pandemics in Film and the Cultural Fears They Reveal Bernadette Bosky Olympiad Academia
"Real" Hunger: The Santa Clarita Diet and the Capitalocene Sharon Diane King UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Children of the Night in a Sunburnt Country: Australian Vampires on Film Graeme Wend Walker Texas State University
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41. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Epic Violence and the Cove Anthropocene Chair: Matthew Sangster University of Glasgow
Speeding Up Slow Violence: Epic Fantasy Length and the Shaping of Environmental Imagination Matthew Oliver Campbellsville University
Cthulhu in the Chthulucene: On Marjorie Liu’s Monstress and Environmental Dystopia Derek Lee Wake Forest University
Abandoning the Quest: On the Ineffectiveness of High/Epic Fantasy in the Anthropocene Weronika Łaszkiewicz University of Białystok
42. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Anticapitalist Ecologies in Captiva A Science Fiction Chair: TBA TBA
Feminism, Sovereignty, and Place: Ecocritical Dystopianism in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu and Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God Conrad Scott University of Alberta
Work/Play on a Barren Moon: Useful Labor and Ecological Necessity in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed Kira Braham Independent Scholar
Technological Displacement and Innovative Failure in Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology Kylie Korsnack University of Richmond
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43. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Early Science Fictions Captiva B Chair: John Rieder University of Hawai'i-Mānoa
How Our Developing Understanding of the Anthropocene Helps Us Reinterpret Lost Race Fictions in Early Australian Science Fiction Gillian Polack Deakin University, Australia
Where Do We Go from Here?: Approaching the End of Humanity in Two Early French Science Fiction Novels Andrea Blatz University of Texas at Austin
The Anthropocene and Afterwards: Planetary Ruination and Posthuman Extinction in the Future Histories of Olaf Stapledon James G. Lowder School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
44. (SCIAFA) [LIVE] Navigating the Job Market during COVID Capri Moderator: Samantha Baugus
University of Florida
Mark Decker Bloomsburg University
Sarah Fish Collin College
45. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session II Vista A Host: Karen Joy Fowler
Eleanor Arnason Alaya Dawn Johnson Bruce McAllister Candas Jane Dorsey
46. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Teaching SF+F Writing Vista B Moderator: Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Gregory A. Wilson Russell Davis Nancy Kress Mary Anne Mohanraj
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Friday, March 19, 2021 17:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.
Coffee Break On Your Own
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Friday, March 19, 2021 18:00 p.m. - 19:50 p.m.
47. (Board) [LIVE] Guest Panel: Making the Anthropo(s)cene Capri Moderator: Gerry Canavan Marquette University
Stacy Alaimo University of Oregon
Jeff VanderMeer, Guest Author
Grace L. Dillon Portland State University
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Friday, March 19, 2021 20:00 p.m. - 20:50 p.m.
48. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Apocalypses Great and Small: Belle Isle How Speculative Works by People of Color Rethink Our Pasts and Futures in the Anthropocene Chair: Novella Brooks de Vita Houston Community College/ Texas Southern University
Returning to Nature, Destroying the Self: Apocalyptic Desire Maia Gil'Adí University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Afterlives of Racial Capitalism: Apocalypse, Racism, and Resilience in Carman Maria Machado’s "Inventory" and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One David J. Vázquez American University, Washington, DC
Technologies of Contagion: Spores, Viruses, and The Promise of the Apocalyptic Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson Loyola Marymount University
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49. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Real World Impacts of Magnolia Fantastic Literature Three Ways Chair: Sam Morris University of South Carolina Beaufort
Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters as Environmental Fable Simone Caroti Full Sail University
Speculative Fiction in the High School Classroom Madeline Ludwig University of Northern Iowa
Onward, Gamers!: Depictions of Roleplaying Games in Disney's Onward Jessica Stanley Old Dominion University/John Tyler Community College
50. (FTFN/FTV/IF/CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Transformative Pine Wonder: Eco-Criticism and Fairy Tales Chair: Jalondra A. Davis University of California, San Diego
The Capitalist and Forest: Imprints in Walt Disney's Fairy Tale Films Rachel Harris Concordia University
Wonders of Nature and Storytelling: An Examination of Ponyo as Reflective and Cultural Adaptation Jade Lum University of Hawai'i-Mānoa
The God Who Protects the Village: Ainu Owl Stories in Japanese Picture Books Lucy Fraser The University of Queensland
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51. (IF/FL/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Weirding the Maple Anthropocene II: Weirding Race and Space Chair: Dale Knickerbocker East Carolina University
Strange Gardens: Encountering Wilderness in Medieval Chinese Paradoxography Evan Nicoll-Johnson University of Alberta
Make the Familiar Strange: Decolonizing Speculative Fiction Through Postcolonial Visibility Marisca Pichette Stonecoast MFA Program
52. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Immersion and Interaction Dogwood Chair: Kelli Shermeyer University of Oklahoma
Of Alt/Worlds and Alien Dramaturgies: Speculative Scripting in Immersive Theatre Carrie J. Cole Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Retelling "The Tell-Tale Heart": An Interactive Transmedia Project Kenton Taylor Howard University of Central Florida
Performing Environmentalism in Pandora: Narrative, Hyperreality, and Saving the Planet at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Daryl Ritchot University of British Columbia Okanagan
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53. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Feminist Ecology and Gender Oak Autonomy Chair: Stina Attebery California Polytechnic State University
Aniara (2019) as Feminist Survival Narrative Jen Caruso Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Stranger Things and The Body: Examining Gender and Autonomy in Horror Jennifer Pendragon Independent Scholar
Salvaging Revisited: Margaret Atwood's Feminist Eco-Gothic Challenges to the Anthropocene Gina Wisker University of Bath
54. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Pratchett - of Horsemen and Cove Creators Chair: Matthew Oliver Campbellsville University
Creation and Responsibility: Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay (1996) and Unseen Academicals (2009) Caroline Webb The University of Newcastle, Australia
The Horsemen Variations: Christian Apocalyptic Imagery in Fantastic Literature of the 1980s Cat Ashton Independent Scholar
Upsetting the Great Plan: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett and the Apocalypse Anne Claret University of British Columbia — Okanagan
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55. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fantastic Substances Captiva A Chair: Taryne Jade Taylor Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
From Plastic to the Plastiglomerate: Science Fiction’s Shifting Synthetic Sensibilities Lisa Swanstrom University of Utah
Daughters of Mother Earth in the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene: From Environmental Toxicity to the Reproductive Sterilization of Women Sumeyra Buran University of California Riverside/Istanbul Medeniyet University
56. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Exploring Southern Reach Captiva B Chair: Dagmar Van Engen Arizona State University
Annihilating Identity: Raced, Erased, and Re-Raced Subjects VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy Alexandria Nunn University of Maryland, College Park
Magic(s) of the Anthropocene: Enchantment vs. Terroir in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Filip Boratyn University of Warsaw
"Acceptance Moves Past Denial": The Horror of Climate Change and Post- Normal Science in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy Jerome Winter University of California, Riverside
57. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings V Vista A Host: A. T. Greenblatt
Joyce Chng Nancy Hightower P. Andrew Miller
58. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: The Fantasy Lives of Humans and Animals Vista B Moderator: Eileen Gunn
Dominica Phetteplace Charis Loke
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Friday, March 19, 2021 21:00 p.m. - 21:50 p.m.
59. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Monstrous Masculinities and Belle Isle Hideous Progenitors Chair: Jennifer K. Cox Independent Scholar
Maggots and Tomato Worms: Impotence and Violence in Coraline and The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman Novella Brooks de Vita Houston Community College/ Texas Southern University
The Strange Toxicity of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Coralyn Powell Longwood University
Hideous Progenitor: Mary Shelly in Adaptations of Frankenstein Jude Wright Peru State College
60. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Life and Loss Dogwood Chair: Eden Lee Lackner University of Calgary
If You're Not Scared of Death, How Can You Value Life?': Bridge Babies, Timefall Rain, and Eco-Horror in Death Stranding Andrew Barton Texas State University
Putting the Earth's Future on Display: Balancing Realism and Hope in a Climate Change and SF Exhibit Jeremy Brett Shelby Hebert Texas A&M University Texas A&M University
Walking Tall Through Life and Loss: How Video Games Help Us Navigate Grief Neysa Klauer University of Northern Iowa
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61. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Science Fiction and Horror Oak Futures of Days Gone By Chair: Regina Hansen Boston University
Closer Than Ever: Our World Out of Control—Horror Futures in 70s Science Fiction Cinema Cat Sparks Independent Scholar
The Price of Flesh: How Horror Musical Repo! The Genetic Opera Prophesied the Pandemic Kenzi Ramer University of Northern Iowa
62. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Of Plants, Food, and Recovery Cove Chair: Paul Williams Idaho State University
Fantastic Plants: Rewilding the Imagination in Richard Powers' The Overstory Timothy S. Miller Florida Atlantic University
How Environment Informs the Inhabitants of a Secondary World: As Explored Through the works of J. R. R. Tolkien Odin Hartshorn Halvorson Stonecoast MFA
"Fish Broth and Pickled Moths": Fantastic Food in the Secondary Worlds of Canadian Portal Fantasy Novels Mark Buchanan York University
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63. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] More Climate Fictions Captiva A Chair: Sumeyra Buran University of California Riverside/Istanbul Medeniyet University
Speculative Orientalism in Philip K. Dick’s Novels Sangkeun Yoo UC Riverside
Post-Apocalyptic, Post-Human? Margaret Atwood's Biocentric Vision in the MaddAddam Trilogy Katrin Isabel Schmitt University of Konstanz, Germany
Utopia in Recent Climate Fiction: MaddAddam, MAEVA! and New York 2140 Andrew Milner Monash University
64. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] New Weird Captiva B Chair: Conrad Scott University of Alberta
The Incomprehensible Real: Tracing a New World in the New Weird Jennifer Krause Emory & Henry College
"Why must they be strong?": Abjection and Capacious Being in Jeff VanderMeer's The Strange Bird John Landreville Wayne State University
65. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q+A Session III Vista A Host: Gregory Norman Bossert
Kathleen Jennings Brenda Peynado Matthew Sanborn Smith Sally Wiener Grotta
66. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings VI Vista B Host: Mary Anne Mohanraj
Arin Greenwood Simone Snaith
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 08:00 a.m. - 08:50 a.m.
67. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Children Bear the Burden: Magnolia Responsibilities in Climate Change, Colonization, and the Supernatural Chair: Dimitra Fimi University of Glasgow
Fantasy for the Anthropocene or Fantasy of the Anthropocene? Confronting the Ecocidal Unconscious by Imagining Biocentric Futures Marek Oziewicz University of Minnesota
Crises, Chasms, and Unlikely Collectives: Growing Up in Contemporary Young Adult Eco-dystopian Fiction Amanda Halter Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
Children Should Be Seeing but Not Heard: Childhood Power and the Gothic in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood and Co. Series Rhonda Brock-Servais Longwood University
68. (IF/SFL/CYA/FTFN/FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Race, Maple Gender, and Fantastic Herstories Chair: Marisca Pichette Stonecoast MFA Program
Bones, Fossils, Fantasies - Reconstructing Fantastic Natural Histories of Species, Extinction, and Race in Jules Verne Natalie Deam Iowa State University
Resistance and Authority in a Fairy-Tale 19th Century Latin American Kingdom: "Elena of Avalor" and the Exploration of Latina Power Karen Dollinger University of West Georgia
An Unearthly Wail and a Deadly Kiss: Irony, Satire and Gender in Espronceda's "El estudiante de Salamanca" James A. Wojtaszek University of Minnesota Morris
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69. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate Change in Science Oak Fiction and Horror Film Chair: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Central Michigan University
Parasitic Humanity in Eco-horror Fiction Julie Hugonny University of Stirling
"We’re all we’ve got": Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the Silent God Justice Hagan Marquette University
The Kaiju Shall Inherit the Earth: What Monster Movies Tell Us About Climate Change Sara Austin Miami University
70. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Water, water, everywhere – or not Captiva A Chair: Brian Willems Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split
Towards a Sustainable Built Environment: Arcology in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife Kateřina Houfková Masaryk University
Thirst: Water, Obligation, and Form in Israeli SF Keren Omry University of Haifa
71. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Origin Stories: Starting Points for Crafting New Vista A Science Fiction Moderator: Helen Marshall
Una McCormack Anne Charnock Nina Allan
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 09:00 a.m. - 09:50 a.m.
72. (FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Rethinking the Archetype: Pine Tricksters, Dragons, and the Garden of Eden Chair: Abigail Heiniger Lincoln Memorial University
Evolution of a Trickster Figure: Reynard the Fox from the Eleventh Century to Today Charlie Allison Independent Scholar
Jung and the Dragon Judith Gero John Missouri State University
Back to the Garden: The Creation Story of Eden as Prophecy Clay Wyatt Independent Scholar
73. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Art and Aesthetics Dogwood Chair: TBA TBA
Dead Men Walking: Bones of the Anthropocene in the Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) and J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) Alexandra Gushurst-Moore University of York, UK
Materialising Energy. Eco-Speculative Narratives in Contemporary Art Monika Lubińska University of Silesia in Katowice
Moving the Earth One Meter Closer to the Sun: Terraforming Gestures in Polish Art Eliza Rose University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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75. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] World Systems Captiva A Chair: Keren Omry University of Haifa
Unmooring Algorithms for Climate Change Brian Willems Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split
Postcolonial Thought, Decolonizing the Anthropocene, and Tobias S. Buckell’s Climate Change Novels Shaun Duke Bemidji State University
76. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings VII Vista A Host: Sydney Duncan
Petra Kuppers Jason Baltazar
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77. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Urban Ecology and the Seeds of Cove Anarchism Chair: Allen Shull University of Tennessee at Martin
Walking Beyond Omelas: An Expanded Vision of Anarchism, Ethics & Subjectivity in Ursula K. Le Guin James Gifford Fairleigh Dickinson University
Reading Acacia Seeds: Decentering Anthropocentrism in the Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Theodora Goss Boston University
Every Natural Thing in this Place: City Fairies and Urban Ecology in Emma Bull's War for the Oaks Saga Bokne Karlstad University
78. (SFL) [LIVE] Theory Roundtable: Stacy Alaimo's Work in Progress Captiva A Moderator: Rebekah Sheldon Indiana University
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79. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session IV Vista A Host: Kelly Robson
Jose Pablo Iriarte Rich Larson Sarah Pinsker Robert V. S. Redick
80. (Creative) [LIVE] Words and Worlds A Vista B Host: Gina Wisker
Regina Hansen Don Riggs Sydney Duncan Kristiana Willsey
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
81. (SFL) [LIVE] Panel: Fascist Imaginaries and Speculative Fiction Captiva A Moderator: Sherryl Vint UC Riverside
Anindita Banerjee Cornell University
Jordan S. Carroll University of Puget Sound
David M. Higgins Inver Hills Community College
Rebekah Sheldon Indiana University
Elda Maria Roman University of Southern California
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82. (SCIAFA) CV Workshop Capri Moderator: Sarah Fish Collin College
83. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings VIII Vista A Host: John Kessel
Sofia Samatar Greg Bechtel A. C. Wise
84. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings IX Vista B Host: Alan Smale
Ben Loory Jazmin Collins Suzanne Church
85. (LRA) [LIVE] Lord Ruthven Assembly: Panel: "For the Dead Travel Magnolia Fast!": Vampires' Propensity for Endless Travel from The Vampyre to Twilight Moderator: Amanda Firestone University of Tampa
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Central Michigan University
Lokke Heiss Independent Scholar
Bryan D. Dietrich Invited Author
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00 p.m. - 13:00 p.m.
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 13:00 p.m. - 14:50 p.m.
86. (Board) [LIVE] Guest Scholar Presentation Capri Host: Sherryl Vint University of California, Riverside
Fantastic Speculations: Sea Creatures and Biodiversity in the Anthropocene Stacy Alaimo University of Oregon
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87. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Abject Spaces: Traumatic and Belle Isle Affective Settings in Horror Chair: Jude Wright Peru State College
Evolutions of Evil in Stephen King's Environments Jennifer K. Cox Independent Scholar
This Inhuman Place Makes Human Monsters: Applications of Trauma Theory in Stephen King’s The Shining and Doctor Sleep Erica Yoon Hunter College High School
Dream of the Future: The Eerie Nightmares of Christiane Vadnais’ Fauna Hannah A. Barton University of Glasgow
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88. (FTFN/FL/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Is That a Fairy Tale? Pine Fairy-Tale Structure in Twenty-First Century Texts Chair: Jill Terry Rudy Brigham Young University
Legend Content Tucked into a Folktale Structure: Karen Joy Fowler's Wit's End Jennifer Eastman Attebery Idaho State University
Stories That Eat the World: Fairy-Tale Space and Narrative Structure in Seanan McGuire's Indexing Series Christy Williams Hawai'i Pacific University
"This Is The Way": The Mandalorian as Fairy Tale Jeana Jorgensen Butler University 89. (IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Post-Coloniality and the Maple Anthropocene: Changing the Way We Think Chair: Nicola Hunte The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
The Language of Chaos: Post-Apocalyptic Essays in the Age of Pandemia Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares Independent Scholar
Degrowth in the Anthropocene Worlds of Okorafor and Le Guin Sandra J. Lindow Independent Scholar
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90. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Superpowers: Creative Labor Dogwood and Pedagogy Chair: TBA TBA
The SuperPOWwers of the Interrogative Mode Noran Amin Cairo University
Autonomous Collectivity against the State: WATCHMEN #11 (August 1987) Gerry Canavan Marquette University
Labor Ecologies of Comic Books: Why Are Marvel and DC Hiring All These SFF Writers? Aaron Kashtan UNC Charlotte
91. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Posthumanities Oak Chair: Taylor Evans University of California, Riverside
"Carry Hunger All Your Days": Donna J. Haraway's Sympoesis and Amal El- Mohtar’s and Max Gladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time War Brantley L. Bryant Sonoma State University
"Beyond the End of Her Story, of Herself": Jeff VanderMeer’s The Strange Bird and the Emergence of Posthumanist Sentimentality Tony M. Vinci Ohio University, Chillicothe
Posthuman pastorals: adaptation and survival in Paolo Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag" and Sara Genge's "Shoes-to-Run" Vera Benczik Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
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92. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fantasy, Myth, and Individualism Cove Chair: Daniel Creed Florida International University
Fantasy, Individualism and the Value of Common Property Matthew Sangster University of Glasgow
The Many Lives and Deaths of Dar Oakley: Repeated Underworld Journeys in Ka: Dar Oakley and the Ruin of Ymr Paul Williams Idaho State University
"A bad land for Gods": Environmentalism and Presence in American Gods Ashleigh McIntyre University of Newcastle
93. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Women of/in Science Fiction Captiva A Chair: Claire Stanford University of California, Los Angeles
Anne McCaffrey and the Anthropocene Audrey Taylor Sul Ross State University, Rio Grande College
Femmes Fatales: Mirror Neurons and Machiavellian Intelligence in Tepper's Gate to Women's Country and Haden Elgin's Native Tongue Barbara Simerka Queens College / CUNY
The Reclamation of McCaffery's The Ship Who Sang: Feminist Irony as Resistance to Utopian Ableist Narratives Tessa Swehla University of Arkansas
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94. (SFL) [LIVE] Panel: Fifty Shades of Nay: Consent for SF Characters and Captiva B Consumers Moderator: Kiersty Lemon-Rogers Berea College
Kristy Eagar Brigham Young University
Kate Johnston University of Minnesota
Adam McLain Harvard University
K. Tempest Bradford Independent scholar
95. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session V Vista A Host: E. Lily Yu
Karen Joy Fowler Molly Tanzer Rachel Steiger-Meister Nicola Griffith
96. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Crafting the Fantastic Vista B Moderator: David D. Levine
Nick Wolven Suzanne Palmer Alan Smale Peter Orullian Rachel Swirsky
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 16:50 p.m.
97. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Technology, the Anthropocene, Magnolia and the Bodies Politic. Chair: Cynthia Zhang University of Southern California
Things That Go Bump in the Light: Techno-Political Horrors in Cory Doctorow's Radicalized Sonja Froiland Lynch Wartburg College
"We all knew that what hung above London were icebergs": The Weirding of Climate Change in China Miéville’s "Polynia" and "Covehithe" Deborah Bridle Université Côte d'Azur
98. (FTFN/IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Through the Enchanted Pine Forest: Fairy-Tale Tourist Locations Chair: Rachel Harris Concordia University
Fairy-Tale Tourism in Germany: On the Road with the Brothers Grimm Claudia Schwabe Utah State University
Climate Change and Creatures of the Enchanted Forest: How to Reimagine the Future in a Swedish Tourist Attraction Tora Wall Åbo Akademi University
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99. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Jemisin's Heroines and Broken Maple Earth Chair: Katy Boyer Penn State University
"Of Course, Father Earth Never Moves When One Wishes": Alterity and Geopaternalism in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy Allen Shull University of Tennessee at Martin
Locating Blackness at the End of the World – N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth and the Black Anthropocene Misha Grifka Wander Ohio State University
100. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Playing the Capitalocene Dogwood Chair: Jessica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh
Brave-ing the Anthropocene: Nominative and Procedural Rhetorics in Ecological Videogames Justin Cosner University of Iowa
The Cosmic Pessimist in The Long Dark Mümtaz Murat Kök The Graduate School for Social Research (at the IFiS PAN)
Dreaming of Crepes and Kaiju: Monstrous -Cenes in 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Lillian Marie Martinez University of Florida
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101. (FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Legacies of Violence: Legend Oak and Myth in Modernity Chair: Jennifer Eastman Attebery Idaho State University
Only the Devil and I: Myth, Violence, and Blackbeard Derek J. Thiess University of North Georgia
The Age of the Motherfu**ker: A Critical Gender-, Sexuality- and Race-based Analysis of Mother Earth and the Anthropocene Jane Caputi Florida Atlantic University
Interrupting Human: The Black Atlantic Mermaid and the Anthropocene Jalondra A. Davis University of California, San Diego
102. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Winter is the Season of Blood Cove Chair: Stefan Ekman University of Gothenburg
Drowning in Blood; George R.R. Martin Critiques the White Saviour Joseph Rex Young University of Otago
Forces of Nature in the Secondary World Atli Dungal Sigurðsson University of Iceland
Always Winter but Never Christmas: Global Cooling in Fantasy Literature and its Medieval Predecessors Eleanor Griggs University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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103. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Ecologies & Energies Captiva A Chair: Steven Shaviro Wayne State University
Solar Power as a Design Challenge: Using Science Fiction to Imagine Futures in the Anthropocene Clark A. Miller Joey Eschrich Arizona State University Arizona State University
Between the Singularity and the Dying Earth: SF, Fantasy, and Horror as Energetic Genres Rhys Williams University of Glasgow
104. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Golden Age Science Fiction Captiva B Chair: Robert Cape Austin College
From the Golden Age Frontier of Plenty to Crisis Frugality: Ecological Themes in Asimov's Work Jari Käkelä University of Helsinki
Thoreauvian Virtue Ethics in the Works of Clifford Simak Jeffrey M. Baus Eötvös Loránd University
Technology in the Garden: Will Simak's Robots Ever Find Their Souls? Stanley C. Kranc University of South Florida
105. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings X Vista A Host: Nisi Shawl
Marie Brennan Alyc Helms Henry Lien
106. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Queering the Fantastic Vista B Moderator: Julia Rios
Mari Ness Lawrence Schimel Cecilia Tan Zen Cho
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 17:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.
Break On Your Own
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 18:00 p.m. - 19:50 p.m.
107. (Board) [LIVE] Guest of Honor Reading – Jeff VanderMeer Capri Host: Benjamin J. Robertson University of Colorado, Boulder
Hummingbird Salamander and Dead Astronauts Jeff VanderMeer
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 20:00 p.m. - 20:50 p.m.
108. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Sense of an Ending: Belle Isle Closure and Disjunction in Weird Fiction and Horror Chair: Timothy S. Murphy Oklahoma State University
"No Truce with the Chthulucene" - Staying with the Trouble through the Weird Fictions of China Miéville, Jeff VanderMeer, and Disco Elysium Tom Byam Shaw University of Aberdeen and Curtin University
The Ellen Datlow Horror Endings Project Brooke Wonders University of Northern Iowa
Restless Figures: Animated Horror Stories as Hypertext Bonnie Cross University of Central Florida and Valencia College
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109. (IF/SFL/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Apocalypse, Dystopia, Maple and the Anthropocene II Chair: David Dalton University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Disaster and the Environment in 20th Century Indian Science Fiction Suparno Banerjee Texas State University
Coming up for Air: Approaches to Ecodystopia in Brazilian Cinema Alfredo Suppia University of Campinas (Unicamp)
110. (VPAA) [LIVE] Panel: The World Beyond Tomorrow: Comics, The Dogwood Anthropocene, and Other Planet-Changing Transformations Moderator: Kevin J. Maroney New York Review of Science Fiction
Noran Amin Cairo University
Rachel Hartnett University of Florida
Aaron Kashton UNC Charlotte
P. Andrew Miller Northern Kentucky University
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111. (FTV) [LIVE] Panel: Are We in a Post-Zombie World Yet? The Changing Oak Climate of Zombie Narratives and the Walking Dead Moderator: Valérie Savard University of Alberta
Kyle William Bishop Southern Utah University
Angela Tenga Florida Institute of Technology
C. Wylie Lenz Florida Polytechnic University
112. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Deep Image of London Cove Chair: Brian Attebery Idaho State University
The Deep Image and the Anthropocene Don Riggs Drexel University
"Mildly Obsolete in London": Salvagepunk in China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun Rhonda Knight Coker University
Portraying Magic, Estranging Modernity in the Rivers of London Graphic Novels Stefan Ekman University of Gothenburg
113. (SFL/IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Other Futurisms Captiva A Chair: Ian Campbell Georgia State University
Climate Changes and Environmental Degradation in Chinese Science Fiction of the New Millennium Fang Tang Yangtze University
Posthuman Poetics in Franny Choi's Soft Science Claire Stanford University of California, Los Angeles
Defining Latinx Futurisms: Latinx Diasporic Science Fiction Taryne Jade Taylor Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 47
114. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Playful Fictions Captiva B Moderator: Lisa Swanstrom University of Utah
Climate Apocalypse, Aliens, and Robots – Potential Futures for Humanity as Imagined in the Mass Effect Series Hilmi Ulas Chapman University
An Elaborate Contraption: Pervasive Games as Mechanisms of Control in Ernest Cline's Ready Player One Jack Murray University of Central Florida
Speculating an Escape from Universe 25; or, Learning to Play in the Anthropocene Theo McLemore University of Colorado Boulder
115. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session VI Vista A Host: Nancy Hightower
Anna Smith Spark Cat Rambo David Sandner David Nickle
116. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Decolonizing the Fantastic Vista B Moderator: Alexis Brooks de Vita
Isabel Yap John Clute Erin Roberts
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 21:00 p.m. - 21:50 p.m.
117. (Board) Panel: BIPOC Panel – Writing the Unsaid Capri Moderator: Alexis Brooks De Vita Texas Southern University
Joyce Chng Usman Malik Mimi Mondal Erin Roberts
118. (VPAA) [LIVE] Panel: Skins of Sand, Fur, and Steal: Rethinking Dogwood Personhood in Environmental, Animal, and Robotic Identities Moderator: Justin Cosner University of Iowa
Samantha Baugus University of Florida
Katherine Randazzo University of Iowa
119. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XI Vista A Host: P. Andrew Miller
Richard Butner A. T. Greenblatt Gregory Norman Bossert
120. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: The State of Speculative Fiction Publishing Vista B Moderator: Liza Groen Trombi
Neil Clarke Brian Evenson Francesca Myman Mike Allen Sheila Williams
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 08:00 a.m. - 08:50 a.m.
121. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] New Minds in Science Fiction Captiva A Chair: Jerome Winter University of California, Riverside
"She Was Probably Male": Gender and Embodiment in Ancillary Justice David M. Higgins Inver Hills College
Holistic Approaches to Training Artificial Intelligence in The Lifecycle of Software Objects Noah Slowik Lewis University
Cybernetics and Ancillary Justice: Embodiment, Crisis, and Resistance Robert Nguyen Pennsylvania State University
122. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session VII Vista A Host: Fran Wilde
Sarah Kozloff David Erik Nelson Elle E. Ire Dennis Danvers
123. (Creative) [LIVE] Clone with Joan Breakfast Vista B Host: Joan Slonczewski
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 09:00 a.m. - 09:50 a.m.
124. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Let's Hear It For the Girls!: Magnolia Gender Fluidity in Tamora Pierce's Tortall Series and Black Girl Magic in the Works of Jewell Parker Rhodes and Delia Sherman Chair: Robin Whittle Independent Scholar
"The Woman Who Rides Like a Man": An Examination of Gender in Tamora Pierce's Tortall Fantasy Series Samantha Niles University of Northern Iowa
Natural Black Girl Magic and the Horrors of Environmental Destruction in the MG Fantastic of Jewell Parker Rhodes Lynette James Independent Scholar
The Education of Sophie Martineau: Learning Black Girl Subjectivity in Delia Sherman's The Freedom Maze Amanda Firestone University of Tampa
125. (FTFN) [LIVE] Panel: Dark Forests of the Imagination: Fairy Tales and Pine Ecological Thinking Moderator: Theodora Goss Boston University
Sara Cleto The Carterhaugh School
Brittany Warman The Carterhaugh School
Psyche Z. Ready University of Connecticut
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126. (IF/FTFN/GaH/FTV/VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Creature Maple Features II: Subversive Interspecies Relations Chair: Li Zeng Illinois State University
Snake in the Hair as a Sacred Thread of Wedlock: Interspecies Love as Decolonial Love in Girish Karnad's Nagamandala Sheetala Bhat University of Western Ontario
Egocentric Loves and an Anti-anthropocentric Ending: A Comparison Between Izumi Kyoka's Fantastic Play, "Demon Lake", and Shinkai Makoto's Movie, Weathering with You Masaya Shimokusu Doshisha University, Kyoto
Intellectual Hypocrisy and Social Hierarchies in José Fernández Bremón's "Un crimen científico" Morgan Keith Stewart University of Kentucky
127. (VPAA) [LIVE] Panel: Kentucky Route Zero: The First Decade Dogwood Moderator: Andrew Ferguson University of Virginia
Virginia L. Conn Rutgers University
Pawel Frelik University of Warsaw
John Murray University of Central Florida
Anastasia Salter University of Central Florida
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128. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Trauma in Fantastic Film Oak Chair: Simon Spiegel University of Zurich, Department of Film Studies
"The Fate of this Blood!" - Inherited Trauma in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Katherine Randazzo University of Iowa
Mutilating Maleficent: The Function of Fantastic Trauma in Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) Rikke Schubart University of Southern Denmark
A Revelation in American Horror Film: Intergenerational Trauma and Transmissibility in Ari Aster's Hereditary Alex Story CU Boulder
129. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fantasy, Foucault, and the Cove Anthropocene Chair: Alexis Kaegi Stonecoast MFA
"Die and give us life": Confronting Power to Prevent Climate Catastrophe in The Magician’s Land Megan Suttie McMaster University
The Biopolitics of Posthuman Children in One of Us and Never Let Me Go Mark Heimermann Lakeland University
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130. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] International Science Fiction Captiva A Chair: Vera Benczik Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Devoured by Flowers: The Societal Response to Anthropogenic Climate Change in Sabri Musa's The Gentleman from the Spinach Field Ian Campbell Georgia State University
What is Left of Us: Post-Human Agency and Femininity in Laura Pugno's Sirens Roberta Berlingò University of Calabria
131. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings X Vista A Host: Greg Bechtel
Paul Tremblay John Chu Tenea D. Johnson
132. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Using Mythology and Folklore in Fantastic Vista B Fiction Moderator: Kehkashan Khalid
Bryan Camp Indrapramit Das Ada Palmer
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
133. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Non-Genre Science Fiction Captiva A Chair: Shaun Duke Bemidji State University
Predictive and Prescriptive Modeling: The Cruelty of the Future and Kōbō Abe's Inter Ice Age 4 Andrew Wenaus University of Western Ontario
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster: Prophesying a Bleak Future for America and the Rest of the World Arianna Casali Independent scholar
Libertarians in Space. The Future in the Short Film "Libra" Simon Spiegel University of Zurich
134. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XII Vista A Host: Sarah Pinsker
Joe Haldeman C. S. E. Cooney James Patrick Kelly
135. (Creative) [LIVE] Words and Worlds B Vista B Host: Regina Hansen
Gina Wisker Gillian Pollack Graeme Wend Walker Curt Steindler
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 11:00 a.m. -11:50 a.m.
136. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Reaction and Interaction: Human Captiva A Relationships with Apocalypse Chair: Isiah Lavender III University of Georgia
Koontown and COVID: Using Science Fiction to Understand Health Without Care in the United States Chanara Andrews University of Georgia
Representations of Marginalization and Revenge in AMC’s The Walking Dead Hannah V. Warren University of Georgia
D/Evolution: Reimagining Darwinism and the Rhetoric of Evolution in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos Julia Lindsay University of Georgia
137. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session VIII Vista A Host: C. S. E. Cooney
Kelly Robson Andy Duncan Veronica Schanoes John Kessel
138. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XIII Vista B Host: Michael J. DeLuca
Albert Wendland Julie C. Day Carrie Vaughn
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:00 p.m. - 13:00 p.m.
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 13:00 p.m. - 14:50 p.m.
139. (Board) Guest of Honor Presentation – Jeff VanderMeer Capri
Too Late/Not Too Late Jeff VanderMeer
Followed by: Alison Sperling interviews Jeff VanderMeer
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140. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Unstable Ontologies: Re- Belle Isle Examining Personhood Amidst Ecological Crisis Chair: Benjamin J. Robertson University of Colorado, Boulder
Unpeople of the Apocalypse: Charting Animacy and Its Outside in Indra Sinha's Animal's People and Jeff VanderMeer's Borne K. M. Ferebee Ghent University
Against Man: Violence and the Vegetal in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian Cynthia Zhang University of Southern California
Complicity with Infection: Pedagogical Pivots for Teaching Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation in a Pandemic Stephen Webb University of Alberta
141. (CYA/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Who Owns This World? Magnolia Eco-Responsibility in Fantasy and Real Life Chair: Alena Cicholewski University of Oldenberg
The Otherworld Crumbles: Metaphoric Climate Loss in Young Adult Fairytale Adaptations Valerie Estelle Frankel Mission College and San Jose City College
Embodying the Permaculture Story: Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching Series Tereza Dědinová Masaryk University, Czech Republic
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Tina L. Hanlon Ferrum College
142. (FTFN) [LIVE] Panel: Folk Narrative Ontologies and the Anthropocene Pine Moderator: Cristina Bacchilega University of Hawai'i-Mānoa
Linda J. Lee University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen Ragan Independent Scholar
Kristiana Willsey University of Southern California
143. (IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] (De)Colonizing the Maple Anthropocene: Tobias Buckell, Nnedy Okorafor, Rosa Guy Chair: Mailyn Abreu Toribio Palm Beach State College
Tobias Buckell's Post-Apocalyptic Eco-systems in Island-Worlds: Reading the Anthropocene within the "Culturality of All Other Human Orders" Nicola Hunte The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
The Colonization of Bodies in Okorafor's "The Popular Mechanic" Mary Laffidy Northern Arizona University
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144. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Gaming the Anthropocene: Dogwood Survival of the Fittest? Chair: Lillian Marie Martinez University of Florida
Boundless, Terrifying Freedom's: Ecocriticism and Ludographic Metafiction in Final Fantasy VII: Remake (2020). Ruth Booth Dr. Darshana Jayemanne University of Glasgow Abertay University
The End of the Zombie Era: Sustainability and Security at the End of The Walking Dead Steven Donald Holmes University of Hawai'i-Mānoa
145. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Animated Fantastic Oak Chair: Joshua Pearson California State U, Los Angeles
"I Want You Very Much to Improve:" Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Tattered Tom, and the Ideological Depths of Nostalgia Mark T. Decker Bloomsburg University
Another Lady, Another Tiger, Another Time: Reclaiming the Fantastic in Amazon’s Animated Series Undone Nate Garrelts Ferris State University
Into the Unknown: Masquerading Fear in Over the Garden Wall Kayla Lawrence University of Northern Iowa
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146. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Heterotopes of Middle-Age and Cove Death Chair: Misha Grifka Wander Ohio State University
A Third Place to Stand: The Journeys of Middle-Aged Women in Adventure Fantasy Alexis Kaegi Stonecoast MFA
"Grey Mist Coiling": The Biopolitical Twilight of Death in Garth Nix’s Sabriel Katy Boyer Penn State University
From Portable Landscapes to Themed Thrill Rides: Rowling’s Heterotopic Hopescapes in the Anthropocene Stephanie J. Weaver, Ph.D. Savannah College of Art and Design
147. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Science Fiction in the World Captiva A Chair: Stan Hunter Kranc The Pennsylvania State University
Kim Stanley Robinson's Case for Hope in New York 2140 John Rieder University of Hawai'i-Mānoa
Dream Mining: Art and Intellectual Property in Caragh O'Brien's Vault of Dreamers Rebecca McNulty University of Florida
148. (SFL) [LIVE] Panel: Speculative Modernists Blow Up the World! Captiva B Moderator: Robert Stauffer Dominican College
Bill Gillard University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
James Reitter Dominican College
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149. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XIV Vista A Host: Andrea Hairston
Mimi Mondal Erica L. Satifka Tobias Buckell
150. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Ecology and Climate Change Vista B Moderator: Siobhan Carroll
Maria Dahvana Headley Chinelo Onwualu Michael J. DeLuca Alyx Dellamonica
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 16:50 p.m.
151. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session IX Vista A Host: Molly Tanzer
Nalo Hopkinson Andrea Hairston E. Lily Yu Nisi Shawl
152. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Speculative Film and Television Adaptations Vista B Moderator: Sherryl Vint University of California, Riverside
Ted Chiang Invited Author
Jason F. Brown Invited Producer
Jonathan Alexander University of California, Irvine
Pawel Frelik University of Warsaw
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 17:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.
Break On Your Own
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 18:00 p.m. - 19:50 p.m.
153. (Board) [LIVE] IAFA Business Meeting and Awards Presentation Capri
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Sunday, March 21, 2021 20:00 p.m. - 22:00 p.m.
154. (VPAA) Flash Plays Capri Host: Carrie J. Cole Indiana University of Pennsylvania